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I don't have any Windows computers these days but if I may offer a workaround for the news feed -- I'd recommend looking to running your own ad blocking DNS wit

I don't have any Windows computers these days but if I may offer a workaround for the news feed -- I'd recommend looking to running your own ad blocking DNS with pi-hole. You can get a Raspberry Pi for $30 and get the whole thing up and running in an hour.

serf 5y ago
> You can get a Raspberry Pi for $30 where? they're all either sold out entirely or hugely marked up near me.
- usui 5y ago
  yea, OP is going off of pricing that was in the before-times. Also I wouldn't recommend buying anything less than Raspberry Pi 3. Would recommend Raspberry Pi 4 in almost all cases simply due to its better compatibility+power. The lowest end models (2GB) right now are all extremely marked up from the original $40 to current $80.
  - lewispollard 5y ago
    Pihole is not very resource intensive at all, you can run it on a pi 0 without any issues.
    - theandrewbailey 5y ago
      You don't even need a Pi, either. I run it on my home server running Ubuntu.
      - BizarroLand 5y ago
        I run it in a container on my NAS PC. It uses almost no resources and takes up only a few gigs of space that I wasn't already using for something else.
      - lewispollard 5y ago
        Yup that's true, you can even technically run it on a cloud VM like EC2, though obviously you get higher latency.
    - usui 5y ago
      I find that the reason I love Raspberry Pis is due to its flexibility and my ability to tinker with it. I might want to use it for a Pihole today, something else tomorrow.
amanzi 5y ago
I already use Pi-holes for local DNS and DHCP at home, but I'm still just using the default blocklist with a couple of extras added. Might need to spend some more time looking at this...
alfiedotwtf 5y ago
My dad asked me the other day if he had a virus because each time he logs in, he has travel ads. Turned out, I think what is happening is Microsoft put a travel advertisement button to the pre-login screen which is usually where the login submit button is. So when he clicks it and then logs in, he sees a browser loading. You'd think Windows would be free with all the advertising throughout the operating system. Imagine looking down at you wrist watch and having to watch a 10s advertisement before knowing what the time was... this is the hell that is Windows.
- malka 5y ago
  > You'd think Windows would be free Windows is free (as in beer) as long as you accept the message in the lower right corner 'blah blah activate windows blah blah'

serf 5y ago

> You can get a Raspberry Pi for $30 where? they're all either sold out entirely or hugely marked up near me.

usui 5y ago
yea, OP is going off of pricing that was in the before-times. Also I wouldn't recommend buying anything less than Raspberry Pi 3. Would recommend Raspberry Pi 4 in almost all cases simply due to its better compatibility+power. The lowest end models (2GB) right now are all extremely marked up from the original $40 to current $80.
- lewispollard 5y ago
  Pihole is not very resource intensive at all, you can run it on a pi 0 without any issues.
  - theandrewbailey 5y ago
    You don't even need a Pi, either. I run it on my home server running Ubuntu.
    - BizarroLand 5y ago
      I run it in a container on my NAS PC. It uses almost no resources and takes up only a few gigs of space that I wasn't already using for something else.
    - lewispollard 5y ago
      Yup that's true, you can even technically run it on a cloud VM like EC2, though obviously you get higher latency.
  - usui 5y ago
    I find that the reason I love Raspberry Pis is due to its flexibility and my ability to tinker with it. I might want to use it for a Pihole today, something else tomorrow.

amanzi 5y ago

I already use Pi-holes for local DNS and DHCP at home, but I'm still just using the default blocklist with a couple of extras added. Might need to spend some more time looking at this...

alfiedotwtf 5y ago

My dad asked me the other day if he had a virus because each time he logs in, he has travel ads. Turned out, I think what is happening is Microsoft put a travel advertisement button to the pre-login screen which is usually where the login submit button is. So when he clicks it and then logs in, he sees a browser loading. You'd think Windows would be free with all the advertising throughout the operating system. Imagine looking down at you wrist watch and having to watch a 10s advertisement before knowing what the time was... this is the hell that is Windows.

malka 5y ago
> You'd think Windows would be free Windows is free (as in beer) as long as you accept the message in the lower right corner 'blah blah activate windows blah blah'